Primates of Gashaka

• Hardcover | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects | nr. 35
• The Gashaka Primate Project has grown into one of the largest research and conservation activities in West Africa. At present, it keeps going on the i... Lees meer

Primate Anti-Predator Strategies

• Hardcover | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• This volume details the different ways that nocturnal primates avoid predators. Anti-predator strategies exhibited by nocturnal prosimians include: cr... Lees meer

Primates of Western Uganda

• Hardcover | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• From galagos to gorillas, the primates of western Uganda comprise a very di- verse collection of species. Western Uganda has a long history of primato... Lees meer

Howler Monkeys

• Paperback | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• Howler monkeys (genus Alouatta ) comprise 12 species of leaf-eating New World monkeys that range from southern Mexico through northern Argentina. This... Lees meer

Lemurs

• Hardcover | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• Lemurs: Ecology and Adaptation brings together information from recent research, and provides new insight into the study of lemur origins, and the eco... Lees meer

The Evolution of Exudativory in Primates

• Hardcover | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• I first became involved in research into primate behavior and ecology in 1968, over 40 years ago, driven by a quest for a better understanding of the ... Lees meer

Bones, Genetics, and Behavior of Rhesus Macaques

• Paperback | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• Foreword by Phillip V. Tobias The introduction of rhesus macaques to Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico in 1938, and the subsequent development of the CPRC fo... Lees meer

Primate Biogeography

• Hardcover | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• This comprehensive source introduces the reader to Primate Biogeography as a discipline. Primate Biogeography is a subject rarely addressed as a disci... Lees meer

The Evolution of the Primate Foot

• Hardcover | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• The human foot is a unique and defining characteristic of our anatomy. Most primates have grasping, prehensile feet, whereas the human foot stands out... Lees meer

E.O. Wilson and B.F. Skinner

Paul Naour

• Paperback | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• Reviewers have characterized Paul Naour's A Dialogue Between Sociobiology and Radical Behaviorism, which includes brief introductions by E.O. Wilson a... Lees meer

Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins

• Hardcover | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• Elwyn Simons has held professional appointments at Yale University (1960-1977), Duke University (1977-present), and was the Director of the Duke Prima... Lees meer

High Altitude Primates

• Hardcover | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects | nr. 44
• The basic goal of the volume is to compile the most up to date research on how high altitude affects the behavior, ecology, evolution and conservation... Lees meer

Leaping Ahead

• Hardcover | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• Leaping Ahead: Advances in Prosimian Biology presents a summary of the state of prosimian biology as we move into the second decade of the 21st centur... Lees meer

Owl Monkeys

• Hardcover | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• This book integrates three decades of owl monkey research conducted since 1994 when the first and only book focused on the genus Aotus was published. ... Lees meer

Life and Death in the Gombe Chimpanzees

Claire A Kirchhoff

• Hardcover | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• This book addresses how skeletons can inform us about behavior by describing skeletal lesions in the Gombe chimpanzees, relating them to known life hi... Lees meer

The Bonobos

• Hardcover | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• Among all great ape species, the bonobo is still the least studied in both captivity and the wild. Nevertheless we have observed a considerable increa... Lees meer

Bones, Genetics, and Behavior of Rhesus Macaques

• Hardcover | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• Foreword by Phillip V. Tobias The introduction of rhesus macaques to Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico in 1938, and the subsequent development of the CPRC fo... Lees meer

New Perspectives in the Study of Mesoamerican Primates

• Hardcover | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• The purpose of this volume is to present a comprehensive overview of recent advances in primate field research, ecology, and conservation biology in M... Lees meer

Human Origins and Environmental Backgrounds

• Paperback | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• Advances in fossil studies relating to the origin of Homo sapiens have strengthened the hypothesis that our direct ancestors originated on the African... Lees meer

Primates, Pathogens, and Evolution

• Hardcover | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects | nr. 38
• The immune systems of human and non-human primates have diverged over time, such that some species differ considerably in their susceptibility, sympto... Lees meer

Owl Monkeys

• Paperback | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• This book integrates three decades of owl monkey research conducted since 1994 when the first and only book focused on the genus Aotus was published. ... Lees meer

The Human Condition

Robert G Bednarik

• Hardcover | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• This book summarizes the work of several decades, culminating in a revolutionary model of recent human evolution. It challenges current consensus view... Lees meer

Conservation in the 21st Century: Gorillas as a Case Study

• Hardcover | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects
• Like other fields of science, wildlife conservation is a changing field. Threats facing wild populations of apes and other species, say 20 years ago, ... Lees meer

Origins of Altruism and Cooperation

• Paperback | Engels | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects | nr. 36
• This book is about the evolution and nature of cooperation and altruism in social-living animals, focusing especially on non-human primates and on hum... Lees meer